Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-07-14
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
An Interesting Summary of the
important Occurrences OF
the Week.
A Budget Of News Cleaned From the
Latest Dispatches From Far
and Near.
ADYICES By TELEGRAM.

The New York engineers on the BIO ldway
elevated rolds struck recently. AT tho timo
the trains were loa led with passeNge on their
way from business and work in New York to
their homes in Brooklyn. The result WIS
terrible crush at the Brooklyn end of the
bridge and Fulton Ferry The trouble had
been brewing for some time. The men COM
planned of long hours, and there were rumors
of rcduc ion in wages. Nine men, throo
engineers and six firomen, were discharged
A meeting of the others, who all belong to the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. met
and demanded their reinstatement pending
settlement by arbitration On refusal the
strike was ordered.
"A deputation of st Louis English ladies
have presented an address, to Mrs. Sullivan,
wife of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, asking her
TO assis. in the agitation for the repeal of
coercion
II he following is the weather and crop
bulletin for the week ended July9: Temper
ature-During the week ended July 0 tho
weather has been warmer than usual generally
throughout the Northern States and the Pa
ciic coast the average daily excess being
about degrees from New England westward
to the upper Mississippi valley, and about Z
degrees OH the Pacific coast 1t was cooler
than usual throughout the Southern ates,
and IN the cotton region the daily average was
about degrees below the normal. Tho ex-
cess sof temperature throughout the Northern
States during the past two weeks and the cool
weather in the Southern States during tho
same period leave the average daily temper
ature for the season from January to July 0
about normal, the difference of the daily aver
age from the normal being generally less than
/ degree throu .hout the agricultural regions.
"A Portland, Oregon, special says disas-
trous flood occurred tho other day, at Thomp-
son Falls, Idaho from the breaking of big
dam on Blossom lake. Many wagons and
teams are reported swept away. bridges de-
stroycd, and, tits feared number oftlives
lost 1t is reported the mining towns of
Mining City and York were nearly destroyed,
but mail and telegraph communication is cut
off. 1t is feared n number of freight teams
on the road have been lost The disaster is
very serious TO mining property
"A fire broke out on the stage of the Alca-
Ear theater at Hurley, Wis, tho other night,
and within an hour tho entire business part
of the town was in flames, while eleven per-
sons had perished in the thcater The char
rcd remains of nine people have been taken
from the ruins. The loss is fully $4,000.
The Alcazar was variety theater, chiefly
frequented by miners, and was one of tho re-
sorts of unsavory repute, associated with tho
notorious dance houses of the mining regions.
Several actors rushed up stairs to save their
wardrobes, and when they sought to esclpe
found that they were hcmmed in all sides, tho
flames having spread through the wooden
building with incredible rapidity. How they
struggled to flee will noyec be known, as
none of them except Sadie Wells and Mab'e
Powers were ever seen again. The former
appeared at second story window and called
piteously upon the crowd outside to save her.
Before hand could be raised the flames
reached her and communicated to her cloth
ing. She made n frantic effort to jump
through tho window, and then, with pierre
ing shrek, fell into the furnace below Mablc
Powers had reached third story window.
She jumped and was 30 badly injured that
her recovery is doubtful
The long expected glove fight between
Jack Dempsey, teatherwcight champion of
California and Chicago, and Frank Nevitt, an
amateur of Toledo, occurred at Bay Point re-
Gently, on Maumee bay, just across the Mich
igan line twelve mi es from Toledo About
one hundred sporting men were present and
four rounds fought in which hewitt was
knocked out and stakes and gate receipts
awarded to Dempsey. The fight was for $50
side and gate receipts.